Geek Posted June 7, 2011 Posted June 7, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/mac-lion.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Lion Mission Control" title="mac-lion" width="637" height="397" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17016" /></p> <p>If you have multiple Macs, this may be one of the best and most underrated features of the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> release: you <strong>buy Lion once and you can install it on all of your Macs</strong>, no additional purchases are required per machine, all of the downloading and installation is handled through the Mac App Store.</p> <p>In other words, for just $29.99 you have an unrestricted personal license for Lion installations on your authorized Macs connected to the Mac App Store. Here’s a screen cap from the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/06/video-of-wwdc-2011-keynote/">WWDC 2011 keynote video</a> of when Phil Schiller mentioned this:</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/lion-buy-once-install-all-macs.jpg" alt="Lion: Buy Once, Install on ALL of your Authorized Macs" title="lion-buy-once-install-all-macs" width="620" height="239" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17030" /></p> <p>This was later confirmed by Apple’s <a href="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/06/06lion.html">Press Release</a> regarding Lion, but the whole thing largely went under the radar in the barrage of other news about <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7 Lion</a>, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a>, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/icloud/">iCloud</a>, and all related things from WWDC. </p> <p>While the general personal license is very cheap, it is unclear how Lion updates will work for situations where group licensing is required, which is common in the corporate and academic environments, but it’s unlikely a site license would cost just $29.99. </p> <p>The <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/06/mac-os-x-lion-release-date-is-july-will-cost-29-and-available-only-from-mac-app-store/">Mac OS X Lion release date is set for July</a> of this year and will be available exclusively as a download through the Mac App Store for $29.99. Lion Server will be offered as a separate download for $49.99.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UTx74lp1vnY2H10WdLC6MJTMNn0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UTx74lp1vnY2H10WdLC6MJTMNn0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UTx74lp1vnY2H10WdLC6MJTMNn0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UTx74lp1vnY2H10WdLC6MJTMNn0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=90P1aFZNeqk:PTlu4MFms1A:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=90P1aFZNeqk:PTlu4MFms1A:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=90P1aFZNeqk:PTlu4MFms1A:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=90P1aFZNeqk:PTlu4MFms1A:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=90P1aFZNeqk:PTlu4MFms1A:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=90P1aFZNeqk:PTlu4MFms1A:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=90P1aFZNeqk:PTlu4MFms1A:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/90P1aFZNeqk" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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